ZACH ATTACK: Zach Parise exults after scoring his 20th goal of the season as the Penguins’ Pascal Dupuis can’t bear to watch during the Devils’ 5-2 victory yesterday at Prudential Center.AP

Red-hot Ilya Kovalchuk says the results are the message.

The Devils did their talking this week by beating the Rangers, Flyers and Penguins, the three Atlantic Division foes above them.

“We sent a little message to all the league that we’re right there,” Kovalchuk said after he recorded his third straight three-point game in the Devils’ 5-2 triumph over the Penguins yesterday at Prudential Center, their fourth straight victory since the All-Star break.

The day after marking the second anniversary of his trade to the Devils with a Gordie Howe Hat Trick against the Flyers, Kovalchuk kept his hot streak going with a goal and two assists to help subdue Pittsburgh.

Kovalchuk, who has three goals and seven assists in the Devils’ winning streak, said the team has demonstrated it can beat the best.

“We had a lot of questions about it before the All-Star break,” he said. “We’ve shown we can play with anybody.”

The week, which also included a triumph over Montreal, left the Devils 6-4 combined against the Rangers, Flyers and Penguins this season, with their first visit to the Garden coming tomorrow.

The Devils have scored 20 goals in the four games since the break, after managing only one each in the three-game losing streak they took into it.

“We’re finally scoring some goals,” said Zach Parise, who notched his 20th yesterday, with five in his four-game goal streak.

The Devils, in sixth place in the Eastern Conference, pulled within a point of the Penguins, with a game in hand, and three of the Flyers, who hold a home-ice playoff spot.

The Devils, 18-7-2 in their past 27 games, ended Marc-Andre Fleury’s nine-game winning streak by chasing him with three goals in 22:28.

Kovalchuk put the Devils on top 2:21 into play with his team-best 22nd. Patrik Elias, stretching his point streak to five games, stole the puck from Fleury behind the Penguin net, and after a shuffle with Parise, fed Kovalchuk in front to steer a shot under Fleury.

Kovalchuk came within another fight of a second straight Gordie Howe hat by assisting on Anton Volchenkov’s first goal as a Devil, breaking a 103-game drought.

Combined with Kurtis Foster’s pair Saturday, it marked the first time this season Devils defensemen have scored in consecutive games.

Dainius Zubrus extended his point streak to four games with the Devils’ 13th short-handed goal of the year, matching the 13 they have allowed, both most in the NHL. Zubrus shoveled a rebound and his 15th under Fleury, who was replaced by Brent Johnson at that point, at 2:28 of the second.

The Penguins answered on that same power play, at 3:12, on Matt Niskanen’s one-timer from the deep slot over the waffle of Martin Brodeur. Parise reopened the Devils’ three-goal lead with his second jam at the left post at 11:26 of the second.

After allowing four unanswered goals in the third period of Saturday’s 6-4 victory over the Flyers, the Devils’ worries returned when NHL leading point-scorer Evgeni Malkin added the Pens’ second power-play goal with 8:17 to play. But David Clarkson sealed victory into the empty net for his first 20-goal season.